Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Your Chickens Cool In Summer?

How Do You Keep Your Chickens Cool In Summer?

  • Their run is in a shaded area

    Votes: 250 61.3%
  • I put a shade cloth/heat resistant tarp over their run

    Votes: 125 30.6%
  • I've installed a misting system

    Votes: 48 11.8%
  • I provide plenty of fresh cool water

    Votes: 334 81.9%
  • They have a fan in their coop

    Votes: 102 25.0%
  • I put out shallow pans with water/ice for them to stand/sit in

    Votes: 131 32.1%
  • I feed them frozen fruits & veggies often

    Votes: 150 36.8%
  • Their coop is well ventilated

    Votes: 254 62.3%
  • I lightly wet the sand in their run

    Votes: 66 16.2%
  • My chickens are heat tolerant

    Votes: 85 20.8%
  • I have a roof over their run

    Votes: 166 40.7%
  • I have lots of trees and bushes for them to sit under

    Votes: 197 48.3%
  • Other (please elaborate in a reply below)

    Votes: 41 10.0%

  • Total voters
    408
At night if over 60f or so outside oscillating fan is on.

We would call this phenomenon "winter". Or, at least, November. :D

My chickens would be digging their sweaters out of storage.

I dunno 😅, I've pulled some pretty damp birds out of boxes for fair check in. To be fair those birds almost always had issues other than being damp thpugh, and I can promise they weren't damp from just having been washed.

Sounds like a ventilation problem. Or roof leaks. Top-hinged nest boxes are notorious for leaking at the hinge.
 
You probably need more natural ventilation. Open up a serious part of a coop wall under the roof and add hardware cloth.
We would call this phenomenon "winter". Or, at least, November. :D

My chickens would be digging their sweaters out of storage.



Sounds like a ventilation problem. Or roof leaks. Top-hinged nest boxes are notorious for leaking at the hinge.

These are birds that kids and their parents shove in cardboard boxes and put in the trunk of their car to drive to fair in 100° heat. Not birds I'm just happening to take out of a coop, and certainly not my birds.
 
Yeah. Those birds were the happiest ones to go into the a.c. in the poultry barn. Also some of the worst to look at because they almost always had poop smeared over them (put shavings in the carriers, people) and they had the strongest chicken butt smell. And after handling no joke almost 200 birds for check in, you don't want any to smell like butt more than they do normally.

We've had kids lose rabbits to that transport method before, but somehow not a single bird.
 
We would call this phenomenon "winter". Or, at least, November. :D


We would call this phenomenon "winter". Or, at least, November. :D

My chickens would be digging their sweaters out of storage.



Sounds like a ventilation problem. Or roof leaks. Top-hinged nest boxes are notorious for leaking at the hinge.
Heeheeeee. Chickens in sweaters 😁 DO NOT let my mother get a hold of THAT idea she wants to stick our goat kids in PJs every year
 
When it a 100° feels like 114 I put two frozen milk jugs in the pool and give cool watermelon that I've grow.
 

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